Phytoremediation for Urban Agriculture with Marie-Anne Viau and Dr. Adrian Paul | Field, Lab, Earth

Marie-Anne Viau and Dr. Adrian Paul discuss using plants to clean copper contamination from soil.
Contamination of various kinds can make it difficult to ensure healthy and safe food crops in urban agriculture. Phytoremediation is a strategy where we may be able to use plants’ incredible natural abilities to help with this problem. In this episode of the Field, Lab, Earth podcast, Marie-Anne and Adrian join me to discuss harnessing phytoremediation to help clean soils for tomato crops. If you want more content like this don’t forget to subscribe to us here on this channel or anywhere podcasts are found.
Featured Article, Full Episode Show Notes, and Transcripts
“Can we simultaneously decontaminate and cultivate? An urban cherry tomato story” published in Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems: doi.org/10.100...
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Resources
The Potential for Urban Agriculture in New York City: growing capacity, food security & green infrastructure: www.researchga...
Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture: www.torontomu....
Articles mentioned by Adrian:
“Beyond Cleansing: Ecosystem Services Related to Phytoremediation” article: www.mdpi.com/2...
“Reclamation of urban brownfields through phytoremediation: Implications for building sustainable and resilient towns” article: www.sciencedir...
Coverage on research presented in English:
“Montreal researchers use willows to decontaminate polluted soil, groundwater” article: www.cbc.ca/new...
“Researchers are using plants to tackle urban pollution” article: universityaffa...
“Where there's a willow, there's a way: City using saplings to decontaminate land” news story: montreal.ctvne...
Research leader Michel Labrecque’s Twitter: / michelphyto
Plant Biology Research Institute Twitter: / irbv_montreal
Website for research leader Michel Labrecque: irbv.umontreal...
Urban Agriculture program at Collège Ahuntsic (French): www.collegeahu...
Cultive ta Ville Montreal (French): cultivetaville...
Correction
Adrian mentions a plant with up to 25% of Ni, but it is 25% of Ni in the latex, not the sap. More information can be found here: www.bbc.com/ne...
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Special thanks to Lobo Loco for the use of their song “Spook Castle” on the intro and outro of our show.
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